Equine DNA testing
Genetic disorders
Packages
5 panel, 6 panel (QH, Paint etc.)
Various breeds
Overo lethal white syndrome (frame overo)
Congenital stationary night blindness (appaloosa)
Polysaccharide storage myopathy type 1 (PSSM1)
Arabians, pure and part-bred
Severe combined immune deficiency (SCID)
Friesians, pure and part-bred
Warmbloods, pure and part-bred
Fell Ponies, Dale Ponies and Gypsy horses, pure and part-bred
Foal immunodeficiency syndrome (FIS)
Quarter horses and related breeds, pure and part-bred
Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HYPP)
Glycogen enzyme branching deficiency (GBED)
Hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia (HERDA)
Saddlebred and related breeds, pure and part-bred
Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB)
Akhal Teke, pure and part-bred
Connemara, pure and part-bred
Hoof wall separation disease (HWSD)
Coat colour tests
Parentage
Us
Practical Horse Genetics
Why test for Warmblood fragile foal syndrome?
Fragile foal syndrome (FFS) is a severe inherited disorder that has been found in Warmblood horses. Foals with FFS are born with extremely fragile skin and lax limb joints. Their skin can be easily torn or damaged by normal contact with their surroundings. Foals with FFS are usually euthenized due to their inability to stand and the continual risk of severe infection from their skin injuries.
FFS is an autosomal recessive disorder. Autosomal disorders are equally likely to affect male or female horses, while "recessive" means that a horse needs to inherit the FFS mutation from both its sire and its dam to be affected. Horses that have inherited the FFS mutation from just one parent are called FFS carriers, and do not have physical signs of this disorder.
Our information and terminology is based on the sequences and content in US patent US2014/0186835A1 describing Warmblood fragile foal syndrome type 1. This test is not patented in Australia.
WFFS
Additional information about the frequency of FFS carriers in Australia will be made available shortly.
